The Massachusetts Democratic Party has a new chairman.
Steve Kerrigan, the party's 2014 lieutenant governor nominee, was elected head of the state party Monday, April 24. He was unopposed, with support from Governor Maura Healey, the state's top-ranking Democrat.
Town Meeting voters in the western Massachusetts town of Leverett are being asked whether they support allowing non-citizens to vote in town meetings and local elections and to serve on town boards and committees.
It's Article 29 on the warrant at annual Town Meeting in Leverett, a town of about 1,800 people in Franklin County, about 5 ½ miles north of Amherst.
